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...between Croats and the Bosnian government, who have also been fighting. After U.N. commanders negotiated a cease-fire in Mostar, which included a promise to withdraw the artillery relentlessly bombarding the Muslim quarters of the ancient city for more than nine months, U.S. envoys hurried to put together a settlement uniting the formerly allied Croats and Muslims into a Bosnian confederation. At the same time, it looked as if peace efforts were turning into a pale version of a cold war superpower contest, with the assertive entry of Russia as protector of the Serbs...
...Foreign Ministry official who led a meeting last week in Bonn of top diplomats from Russia, the U.S. and the European Union. U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher agreed: "The much better strategy is to be using the momentum and new credibility created to try to promote a peace settlement...
...cease-fire into a broader rapprochement. The goal, an old idea revived by Silajdzic in talks with U.S. envoy Charles Redman three weeks ago, is to join the majority Muslim government and the Bosnian Croats in a political union that would confederate with Croatia, and then seek a final settlement with Bosnia's Serbs...
...Baruch Goldstein was no hero, as some settlers and Kach Movement supporters are making him out to be; what he did violates everything my Jewish religion and history teaches. However shock and horror at his action, the natural culmination of the official Israeli settlement policy, may actually lead to real peace...
...lack of trust the Palestinians feel toward the Israeli government additionally complicates matters, and their distrust is not unwarranted. After the massacre in Herbron, the Israeli government announced on Friday that the settlement in Kiryat Arba would be put under curfew. Despite the announcement, however, the settlers were free to move about, according to the commander of an Israeli army patrol...